This book investigates the three pivotal points oftext for foreign language acquisition: reception, construction and deconstruction. InPart One, the focus is on various aspects of text reception, such as developingliteracy, text interest, and perceptions of the academic register or theassessment of spoken language in educational contexts. Part Two deals withvarious aspects of composing text, such as author identity, lexical constructsor collaborative web-based writing. Lastly, Part Three presents the varioussegmental items that constitute text, like lexical clustering, L1/L2relationship, classroom talk as text, etc. The division corresponds with whatcan be viewed as a logical sequence of text-related processes reflected informal learning and teaching environments.

This book investigates the three pivotal points oftext for foreign language acquisition: reception, construction and deconstruction. InPart One, the focus is on various aspects of text reception, such as developingliteracy, text interest, and perceptions of the academic register or theassessment of spoken language in educational contexts. Part Two deals withvarious aspects of composing text, such as author identity, lexical constructsor collaborative web-based writing. Lastly, Part Three presents the varioussegmental items that constitute text, like lexical clustering, L1/L2relationship, classroom talk as text, etc. The division corresponds with whatcan be viewed as a logical sequence of text-related processes reflected informal learning and teaching environments.

This book investigates the three pivotal points oftext for foreign language acquisition: reception, construction and deconstruction. InPart One, the focus is on various aspects of text reception, such as developingliteracy, text interest, and perceptions of the academic register or theassessment of spoken language in educational contexts. Part Two deals withvarious aspects of composing text, such as author identity, lexical constructsor collaborative web-based writing. Lastly, Part Three presents the varioussegmental items that constitute text, like lexical clustering, L1/L2relationship, classroom talk as text, etc. The division corresponds with whatcan be viewed as a logical sequence of text-related processes reflected informal learning and teaching environments.